Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flintastain
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom *flint (“flint”) + *stain (“stone”).
Noun
edit*flintastain m
Inflection
editMasculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *flintastain | |
Genitive | *flintastainas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *flintastain | *flintastainō, *flintastainōs |
Accusative | *flintastain | *flintastainā |
Genitive | *flintastainas | *flintastainō |
Dative | *flintastainē | *flintastainum |
Instrumental | *flintastainu | *flintastainum |
Descendants
edit- Old English: *flintstān
- Middle English: flynt ston, fflyntstone, flynston, flynt-stane, flyntstone, flynt stoone
- English: flintstone
- Scots: flynt-stane
- Middle English: flynt ston, fflyntstone, flynston, flynt-stane, flyntstone, flynt stoone
- Old Saxon: *flintstēn
- Middle Low German: vlintstēn, vlintstein
- Old High German: flinsstein
- Middle High German: vlinsstein, vlinstein, flinsstein, flinstein
- → Middle Low German: vlinsstēn, vlinsstein
- Middle High German: vlinsstein, vlinstein, flinsstein, flinstein